JOHN O. LOGAN

Published: March 29, 1982

John O. Logan, retired president and chairman of Universal Oil Products of Des Plaines, Ill., and former executive vice president of Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, died Saturday at Good Shepherd Hospital in Barrington, Ill. Mr. Logan, who was a resident of Barrington Hills, was 71 years old.

He was born in Alton, Ill., where he graduated from Shurtleff College with a major in chemistry and mathematics. Mr. Logan joined an Olin predecessor in 1931 and in 1965 became executive vice president and a company director.

He subsequently became president of Universal Oil Products and was with the company until the late 1970's.

He is survived by his wife, Edna; a daughter, Mrs. Martha Atkinson of Gales Ferry, Conn.; two sons, John O. Jr. of Naperville, Ill., and Robert of Milford, Conn., and a brother, James Logan of Filey, England.